Activities of Gilles LEBRETON related to 2020/2006(INL)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION with recommendations to the Commission on an EU legal framework to halt and reverse EU-driven global deforestation
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (5)
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that the free-trade business model pursued by the Commission, which results in the import into the Union of large quantities of agricultural products derived from deforestation, such as protein plants and meat, is directly responsible for a certain amount of deforestation at global level; calls for this model to be abandoned;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that voluntary measures alone will not stop deforestation; unilateral commitments alone will not stop deforestation and that compliance with Union rules, together with safeguard clauses in the event of non-compliance, is therefore a necessary precondition for all the Union's trade negotiations;
Amendment 68 #
5. Calls for binding and enforceable environmental and social provisions to be included in free trade agreements (FTAs) so as to protect forests, natural ecosystems and human rights, particularly community tenure rights; calls for the reopening of FTAs which do not contain such provisions, for example the EU-Mercosur, Vietnam, Mexico and Canada FTAs;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the Union to cut dependency on imports of forest and ecosystem-risk commodities by implementing the Union protein plan, and for Union livestock production to match available Union land resources;
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes the unsustainablat the level of consumption in the EU will be sustainable in the long term only if strategic production is localised, and that, for example, the Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) contains insufficient sustainability criteria, which both causes and intensifies land-use change;